A salute to all TV holiday specials, but mostly the Christmas ones. Revisit 12 holiday classics and not-so-classics each December and July.
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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 6 days 23 hours 34 minutes
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episode 1: Prep & Landing Trilogy
Our 5th anniversary episode covering “Prep & Landing,” “Operation: Secret Santa,” and “Prep & Landing: Naughty vs. Nice.” Guests: Paxton Holley, Jeff Somogyi. Find show notes at https://adventcalendar.house
episode 2: A Christmas Carol (1971)
Alastair Sim’s even more animated turn as Scrooge, directed by Richard Williams. Guests: Rob Graham, Michael May. Find show notes at https://adventcalendar.house
episode 3: Pat Boone and Family Christmas Special
No one wants to go to Pat Boone’s lame Christmas party, but everyone’s here to dunk on him. Guest: Guy Hutchinson. Find show notes at https://adventcalendar.house
episode 4: TaleSpin: Jolly Molly Christmas
Cargo pilot Baloo sends his boss’s daughter’s belief in Santa into a nosedive. Guest: Joey O. Find show notes at https://adventcalendar.house
episode 5: The First Christmas: The Story of the First Christmas Snow
An underrated and redundantly titled Rankin/Bass special about neither the first Christmas, nor the first Christmas snow. Guest: Mike Troxell. Find show notes at https://adventcalendar.house
episode 6: Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas
Tim Curry as an evil pipe organ literally brings down the house. Guests: Kristi and Bri from Bad Princess Movies. Find show notes at https://adventcalendar.house
episode 7: The Wonder Years: A Very Cutlip Christmas
Fred Savage spots his gym teacher as a mall Santa, a terrible secret apparently no one else can know. Guest: Andy Gattis. Find show notes at https://adventcalendar.house
episode 8: A Very Merry Cricket
Chuck Jones makes a Christmas spirited sequel to “The Cricket in Times Square.” Guest: Michael DiGiovanni. Find show notes at https://adventcalendar.house
episode 9: My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: A Hearth’s Warming Tail
A Scrooge Sunday canter through Equestria’s equivalent of “A Christmas Carol.” Guests: Jon and Bin (Bin’s Toy Bin, Santa by the Minute). Find show notes at https://adventcalendar.house
episode 10: The Nanny: The Hanukkah Story
There’s no place like being stuck in a snow bank with an eighth of a tank of gas for the holidays. Guests: April Ryley. Find show notes at https://adventcalendar.house
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